The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-17
The PIEDMONT SECTION.
ErEafa or NEWS FROM NEAR Ky
EDET.... LIS.
a si.vsr.&ck Of Happenings Gathered
Fru..s various Seeti sns ia Piedmont
North Carolina.

| 4 Hvver-sck Of Happenings Gathered
| Fru.:l garious Socti sns il, Piedmont
{ North Car Dina
Foxes are catching rabbits il Davidson
county for amusement sake.
The total valuation of all taxable proper
| ", real and person al, in Mount Airy town
ship, runs up to S594,S10.
Mr. j. Van LindIey, proprietor Of the
Pomona Hill Nurseries, GliIford county,
has received orders for 200, 900 fruit trees
this year.
| At the last term Of Dayie court, AZ cases
went off at the county's expense Of about
| $500 and all for Republican meanness"
says the Times.
! Madison Stewart, an Industrious farmer
of Davidson county, made 81 gallons of mo-
! lasses from the cane raised on one ninth Of
an acre this year.
Several new mining men were III Sails
bury last week. The Indications for an in
creased interest in the mining Of that sec
| ton are said to be fattering.
! Mr. Andrew Motsinger, of Abbotts Creek,
Dav iGson county, has harvested his share
of the 'possum crop already, as his advices
are to the effect that he has caught thirty
| six.
( Eev. Il. G. Pearson, the Mississippi evan
gelist, has accepted invitation extended
to him to conduct series OF meetings in
Statewide, beginning the latter part of jan
uary next.
Mr.. J. w. Thomas, of Stokes county,
went out on the mountain turkey hunting a
few days since and The Reporter says that
he returned about 10 o'clock with FIVE nice
fat turkeys hung to his saddle.
The last payment on the Thomasvilie
Orphanage lands has been made. The or
| phanage has over three hundred acres, all
| paid for with several substantial buildings.
! 1t is now on the threshold of its career of
usefulness.
| The Guilford Battle Ground Compan
are almost daily receiving contributions.
! The latest liberal donation forwarded to the
patriotic enterprise was given few days
ago by orr esteemed an,i worthy Lieutenant
| Governor, Charles VI Steiu,an TIE amount
being $50.
A short time since, the celfee boiler,
which Is ali immense vessel, in the kitchen
Of the Morganton insane asylum exploded
when the steam was turned on. William
| CASTOR and Thomas Caldwell, colored sery-
ants, were blown through the window. Gas
ton will die, but Caldwell, it Is thought will
/ recover.
The Statewide 1nd,aark of last week
/ says that year ortwo ago the body Of an
unIlnown man was found floating in the Ca
! tawba river on the Ireiei side. Mr.. Jas.
| T. Anderson, our coroner, has interested
himself ever since in trying to fix the mans
Identity, and has at last become satisfied,
from facts which he has gathered, that he
was one Gapp, foreigner and peddler,
who made his headquarters in Ashe county,
at Ore Knob or Jefferson.
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| Timely Topics From Wilkes County.
! EDITOR SENTINEL:-There ought to be
more intimate relation between Wilkes and
Forsyth, naturally, but especially since we
are 10 be SO soon connected by the w. and
| W. T. R, and there is no better means of es-
tablishing this previous intimacy than though
the columns of your newsy paper. Our peo-
pie seem to like your paper very much and
look forward with great interest to its arriv-
al so as to get the latest railroad news
You know we are all intensely interested in
railroads up here, was evidenced by the
big majority given in favor of the subscrip-
ton to the w. aud w. last June.
| hope there are several good results to
|. follow from that election: First, the rail-
road to this point; second, the arousing and
at the same time harmonizing the county.
Heretofore the only thing that agitated oul
people, in public capacity was politics
Politics is we'll enough in its place, but to
''take it straight" it is a bad medicine II
constipates man mentally, warps his
judgment, and renders him less fit for bust
ness But now the county is more awake to
its material interests, there is more of a
spirit Of public Improvement prevalent in
| the county, now, than has been in the last
Two or three decades. The people are be-
| ginning to realize the fact that years ago in
the days of stage coaching, Wilkes wa:
apace with almost any county in the State
and that now she is in the rear, GLADLY nu.
tilated" and hardly in the ring. Also that
the cause of this is that we have not beer
dead but sleeping, while other counties have
been getting railroads, manufacturers and
all kinds of business enterprises. We, like
the rustic, have been sitting still, while the
rivers flow on. These rivers that Mr. Wat
som c. -'Cy"-is going to harness with
machinery and break them to work.
Religion is somewhat below par in the
county now since it is getting too cold for
brush meetings, and many distilleries are
performing on the large crop of new corn
The "hre-water of the white man" is float
ing around freely.
liz my next will endeavor to give "yo,
folks" some Of the inducements that ar,
offered to men of capital and enterprise, by
this promising land that flows with peach
and honey. WILKES.
Wukes6oro, ~ c., Noe IA, 1877.
That Market House We Need.